ROSACCIO, GIUSEPPE: VIEW OF SKRADIN

This view of Skradin, picturesque little town on the river Krka, Rosaccio also included  the 1598 edition of his isolario «Viaggio da Venetia a Constantinopoli per Mare, e per Terra, & insieme quello di Terra Santa». Here. the town is shown as it was after 1521 when it fell under Turkish rule. In 1537, the town was captured by the Venetians, but in 1538 it was retaken by the Turks. At that time, Skradin was a small place comprising a few tenfold of houses. It was enclosed by the walls and defense towers. Inside the walls the author identifies the mosque  came to be by adaptation of an earlier catholic church. Before the walls there was an open city loggia. The settlement was topped by the Turkish fort where once feudal lords of Bribir had their seat. In the bottom of the cove Rokovača a new Orthodox church of St. Petka can be seen. Skradin remained under Turkish rule until 1647 when it was retaken by the Republic of Venice. Rosaccio used as its source an earlier view dated 1571 made by Božo Bonifačić for Comocio’s isolar.